Our Heritage: (a Romance of the Sierras) in Five BooksH E Roxburgh, 1914 - 333 pages |
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... established great ocean steamship lines ; it laid the Atlantic cable ; it spanned the globe with telegraph and telephone lines ; it hastened the resumption of specie payments ; it built costly castles in Europe ; it built great cities ...
... established great ocean steamship lines ; it laid the Atlantic cable ; it spanned the globe with telegraph and telephone lines ; it hastened the resumption of specie payments ; it built costly castles in Europe ; it built great cities ...
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... established . Old , when the Peti- tion of Right was presented to the First Charles for his approval . OLD , when Magna Charta was wrested from King John on the 15th of June , 1215. OLD , when Alfred the Great compiled his Code ...
... established . Old , when the Peti- tion of Right was presented to the First Charles for his approval . OLD , when Magna Charta was wrested from King John on the 15th of June , 1215. OLD , when Alfred the Great compiled his Code ...
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... established the Common Law . OLD , when the rules of the Common Law were formulated in the forests of Germany , more than two thousand years ago . OLD , when the Mosaic Law was promulgated . OLD , as our race and civilization ...
... established the Common Law . OLD , when the rules of the Common Law were formulated in the forests of Germany , more than two thousand years ago . OLD , when the Mosaic Law was promulgated . OLD , as our race and civilization ...
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... established a kingdom which rendered the name of Thebes , its City , and Amun , its God , forever famous . Then dawned the greatest era of material pros- perity which the Valley of Egypt ever saw . The military expeditions of the great ...
... established a kingdom which rendered the name of Thebes , its City , and Amun , its God , forever famous . Then dawned the greatest era of material pros- perity which the Valley of Egypt ever saw . The military expeditions of the great ...
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... establish the worship of the Sun God as the Supreme and Only Deity . The effort was not successful , and the reaction which followed left the old religious or theolog- ical forms more firmly fixed than ever in the pop- ular belief and ...
... establish the worship of the Sun God as the Supreme and Only Deity . The effort was not successful , and the reaction which followed left the old religious or theolog- ical forms more firmly fixed than ever in the pop- ular belief and ...
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Page 173 - When the woes of life o'ertake me, Hopes deceive, and fears annoy, Never shall the cross forsake me: Lo ! it glows with peace and joy. 3 When the sun of bliss is beaming Light and love upon my way, From the cross the radiance streaming Adds more lustre to the day.
Page 190 - Ye stars, which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Page 202 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Page 276 - ... that it may be declared and enacted, that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true, ancient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom...
Page 202 - He answered and said unto them, 'Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Page 21 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Page 274 - Then was formed that language, less musical indeed than the languages of the south, but in force, in richness, in aptitude for all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator, inferior to the tongue of Greece alone.
Page 211 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 273 - Then it was that the great English people was formed, that the national character began to exhibit those peculiarities which it has ever since retained, and that our fathers became emphatically islanders, islanders not merely in geographical position, but in their politics, their feelings, and their manners.
Page 305 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.